Improvement in fertilizer-attachment to seeding-machines



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JOHAN F. KELLER, OF'HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM UPDEGRAFF, OF SAME PLAGE.

Lam-s Paten.: No. 105,811, dated .my 26,1870..

IMPROVEMENT IN FERTILIZER-ATTAC'I-IMENT T SEEDING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingparl'- Of the Same which-"- sti'rrers', and gearing or'operating devices.

Figure 2, a top Vview of the same.

l`Figure 1 represents aside elevation of the hopper,

gstruction'of `th'e'imovable hopper so as to be attached ,or ldetachefhgwhen required, to any ldrill or seedingmachine, andreuableithe farmer, when not using the fertilizer,to` remove the hopper, vwith its attached devices, and1essen`the-draft tothelteam, saving, also,

the expensefandi/costof 'the ordinarily-co1istrueted fertilizers.j Y Y A,

rv-lhis ,fertilizing-hopper A', can nbe attached to a grain-hopperby putting va Vprojection on the bottom of a grain-'hopper, Vs oas to restthe lower edge ofthe portable fertilizing-hopper upon, and,.witl1 a rod or hook and eye at the upper ends of the hoppers, attach them together, thus enabling the operator to put on'tbe fertilizing-hopper or remove it whenever required.

The diiculty heretofore experienced in sowing pasty or sticky fertilizers with a, continuous feed was that the fertilizer, adhering to the feeders or stirrers, Prould form a solid revolving mass and close up the eed.

By my invention I overcome this dificulty and acquire a decided advantage. By placing two revolving shafts, B B, with four projecting spikes or feeders, C O, on. them, on opposite sides of the aperture D,

. 'lhegmaturewof my invention consists inv the conthrough which the fertilizing substance is discharged, the feeders Ofmove over the aperture D, the feeder G of one being immediately followed by a feeder, G, on the 'opposite shaft, each feeder C moving alternately over the feed-aperture D, forcing the fertilizer through, and operating from different centers. They move over the aperture in dili'erent lines, cleaning 'and clearing each other and the aperture D, in their horizontal movement and Work, of any adhesive subst-anches.

For regulating the feed, an ordinary slide, E, is lo- Vcated and adjusted in the bottom Aof the hopper A.

. The devices fordriving these shafts and feeders f ,consist simply of a shaft, G, with small bevel-wheels 4HHhdriving similar bevel-wheels, J J, attached to the shafts B B of the feeders C C.

, The feeder shafts B work in'boxes K in the bottom of' the hopper A, and similar boxes beneath the bottom, leaving auy aperture for the fertilizer to pass out that might work into the shaft-boxes.

HThe main shaft G, onwhi'eh the bevel-wheels H are piaeed,.is driven by an ordinary cog-wheel, L, worked byy a cog-wheel commonly used for driving grain-sewers.

The main shaftG is held to its placefby boxes M M, placed'underneath the hopper.

N is a spout through which the fertilizing substance is discharged. l

WVhatI claimras my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l The combination and arrangement of the two revolvingpshafts, B B, having four feeders, C O, onopposit-e sides of the feed-hole D, when operated by the gearing devices G, H, J, and M, as herein described, and for the purposes set forth. JOHN F. KELLER.

vWitnesses. z

- Z. B.- CLARK,

WM. BARSHANG. 

